At my high school today, we had music business professionals(radio hosts, record producers) in to talk to us about the music industry. Near the end of the presentation, the organizer was bringing up people to give away prizes. He called for people who had band shirts on. I was wearing my Radiohead shirt so I went up. The other two people that went up were wearing a Kiss and an AC/DC shirt. The organizer asked the audience to cheer for which band was the best, in order to determine who got a prize. When his hand got over top of me, I barely got any cheers at all. When his hand went over the guys with AC/DC and Kiss shirts on, the crowd went nuts. (sigh) Its another sad day for humanity when the two most over rated bands of all time get more recognition then Radiohead. In tribute, here are some tracks by them that I'm digging.

and the shirt I got was an OK Computer era one, with the Radiohead lettering and the message; "Most people gaze neither into the past nor future, they explore neither truth nor lies, they gaze at the television." Although there is no way people could see the quote from how far back they were.

Even people who don't listen to music have heard Back In Black and Detroit Rock City at one time in their life. The same can't be said for any Radiohead song. It's not surprising in the least that Kiss and AC/DC got more cheers than Radiohead.

I don't think so. When I was in high school, and still today, none of my friends listened to Radiohead, but everyone knows of Kiss and AC/DC, even if they have never listened to a full album by either of them.

While more people may be listening to Radiohead today, the widespread appeal of Kiss and AC/DC is far greater.

I get what you're saying, but the little test that the music guys did in Derek's class pretty much proves my point. More people know of Kiss and AC/DC than Radiohead, even if Radiohead is the more popular band today.

Maybe 10 years from now kids will be talking about Karma Police and Creep instead of Back in Black and Detroit Rock City, but the iconic reputation of Kiss and AC/DC is overwhelming.

ya dude, it was Andrea Dunn at the presentation. But it wasn't some conspiracy theory:P. The person that organized the presentation decided to do the t shirt applause thing, FM 96 had nothing to do with it, Andrea was just there to talk.